Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile downstream stretch is already navigable, will be extended another 100 miles to Little Rock before year's end. Engineers predict yearly benefits of $69,927,400, by 1970, a strangely precise estimate arrived at by combining savings in flood control, hydroelectric energy, recreation and freight. Up and down the river, land prices have soared-in one case from $25 an acre to $2,500 with no ceiling yet in sight. Boats have become as ubiquitous as second cars. Supporters of the project claim that cheap transportation will tap the landlocked region's raw materials and enrich...
Director Gordon Wiles: "O.K., let's tape it now . . . Roll tape! (Cast dances the boogaloo. Orchestra blasts two bars of rock music and chops...
...script, or he could ban a play altogether by refusing to license it for performance. Although blue-penciling has eased in recent years, English playwrights have persistently demanded total dramatic freedom, and last July Parliament abolished the Chamberlain's licensing authority. Two weeks ago, the U.S. folk-rock musical Hair became the first play publicly staged in London without a censor's license since the beginning of the 17th century...
That is exactly why many artists find the concept so irresistible. Dennis Oppenheim displays a photograph of a giant nebula made out of aluminum chips that he sprinkled on a field out side New Haven, Conn. Michael Heizer shows a photograph of five holes he dug in the Black Rock desert in Nevada. Robert Smithson exhibits his Non-Site, five trapezoidal woodbins filled with chunks of ore, plus an aerial photograph of the mines in Franklin, N.J., whence they came. This is meant to allow the viewer to contemplate the fact that "140 minerals" are found in the earth...
Boycotted in Chicago. At least one thing can be said for the cover. It suits the spirit of the music inside. The album bristles with the brand of hard, raunchy rock that has helped to establish the Stones as England's most subversive roisterers since Fagin's gang in Oliver Twist.* It also stands in notable contrast to their previous album, Their Satanic Majesties Request, which ventured into the realm of electronic wizardry and psychedelic fantasy charted by the Beatles in Sgt. Pepper. Since that was an alien idiom for the Stones, they sounded pretentious and boring...